gentoo-overlay/metadata/glsa/glsa-200604-08.xml

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<glsa id="200604-08">
  <title>libapreq2: Denial of Service vulnerability</title>
  <synopsis>
    A vulnerability has been reported in libapreq2 which could lead to a Denial
    of Service.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">libapreq2</product>
  <announced>April 17, 2006</announced>
  <revised>April 17, 2006: 01</revised>
  <bug>128610</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="www-apache/libapreq2" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">2.07</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">2.07</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    libapreq is a shared library with associated modules for
    manipulating client request data via the Apache API.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    A vulnerability has been reported in the apreq_parse_headers() and
    apreq_parse_urlencoded() functions of Apache2::Request.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>
    A remote attacker could possibly exploit the vulnerability to
    cause a Denial of Service by CPU consumption.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>
    There is no known workaround at this time.
    </p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>
    All libapreq2 users should upgrade to the latest version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose &quot;&gt;=www-apache/libapreq2-2.07&quot;</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-0042">CVE-2006-0042</uri>
    <uri link="http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/httpd/apreq/tags/v2_07/CHANGES?rev=376998&amp;view=markup">libapreq2 Changes</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Sun, 09 Apr 2006 19:33:11 +0000">
    jaervosz
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Tue, 11 Apr 2006 17:20:17 +0000">
    koon
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Thu, 13 Apr 2006 19:11:49 +0000">
    vorlon078
  </metadata>
</glsa>